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- catalog abstract "Photocopies of news clippings relating to Lucien Victor Alexis, a Harvard student banned from a lacrosse match in 1941.".
- catalog created "1941.".
- catalog date "1941".
- catalog date "1941.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1941.".
- catalog description "However, the principle did not apply to athletics alone: the controversy was concurrent with the banning of an African American member of the Harvard Glee Club from participating in the 1941 spring tour which included Southern States. Later in the season Alexis participated in a match at West Point; the army team did not protest. Alexis enlisted in the Army in 1943.".
- catalog description "Lucien Victor Alexis (Harvard AB 1942), an African American on the Harvard lacrosse team, was banned from playing in a game against the United States Naval Academy in April 1941. The Naval Academy team balked at playing against a team that include an African American player. It offered Harvard three choices: bench Alexis, have the Navy forfeit if Alexis played or call Harvard officials. When contacted, Harvard's Athletic Director William J. Bingham agreed to send Alexis back to Cambridge. Harvard lost the match, 12-0. The ban against Alexis' participation by the Harvard Athletic Association was contested by the Harvard Crimson, which began a campaign of protest. The Crimson was supported by other student groups, including the Harvard Student Union, faculty groups, and national organizations including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Federation of Labor. Students presented petitions to Harvard's president, James Conant Bryant, and telegrammed President Franklin D. Roosevelt, an alumnus of Harvard (Harvard AB 1904) and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The controversy was picked up by newspapers across the country, and resulted in a ruling by the Harvard Corporation stating that there should be no racial discrimination amongst Harvard students. It further stipulated that athletic relations would be severed with competing teams who demonstrated such discrimination.".
- catalog description "Photocopies of news clippings relating to Lucien Victor Alexis, a Harvard student banned from a lacrosse match in 1941.".
- catalog issued "1941".
- catalog issued "1941.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Maryland Annapolis.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "African American athletes Maryland Annapolis.".
- catalog subject "African American athletes Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog subject "African American college students Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog subject "Alexis, Lucien Victor, 1921-1975.".
- catalog subject "College sports United States.".
- catalog subject "Discrimination in sports Maryland Annapolis.".
- catalog subject "Discrimination in sports Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Lacrosse.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Sports.".
- catalog subject "Racism United States.".
- catalog subject "Racism in sports Maryland Annapolis.".
- catalog subject "Racism in sports Massachusetts Cambridge.".
- catalog subject "United States Naval Academy Sports.".
- catalog title "News clippings relating to racism in athletics, 1941.".
- catalog type "text".